Humans are master gardeners. Even the die hard Sunday football fan is likely to spend 40-80 hours a year mowing his lawn. Humans love gardening, growing flowers, lawns etc ... This behavior is simply our agrarian roots manifesting in a very modern world. If the same guy would spend 40 - 80 hours a year cultivating his own food, then he would get exercise, eat healthy organic, non-GMO food. Seems like a no-brainer to me, that's why I am currently trying to grow food at my house in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up in Indiana and was fed every corn product imaginable until I fled there in 1998. Since then I have always wanted to try to live more sustainably. Every house i lived in I, talked the landlord into letting me plant fruit trees and a garden. And now that I own my own lot and a half with a ranch house on it, I intend to maximize what is possible in terms of sustainability on our little plot. We are actually able to produce quite a bit of food ourselves. Most of the summer we can graze the yard and eat fruits, veggies, chicken eggs, even nuts and herbs and spices.
Now we aren't able, yet, to produce all the food we need, but that is our goal. More importantly, however, we have found that we have a lot of like-minded folks in our neighborhood that feels the same way, and we are learning how to collaborate with each other toward our sustainability goals. We have even gone as far as to set up a farmers market in our front yard to distribute food grown on a local organic farm. The neighbors come streaming in to buy produce just blocks away from their house! Great way to meet the neighbors! And we end up with lots of produce from the farm that we can or freeze for later use.
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